The way we perceive or value a person’s physical appearance is very
complicated and contains numerous factors such as sociological background,
age, personal experience and preferences. It also changes throughout
our lifetime as does the weight we attribute to it in our preferential
judgment. I remember that as a child I had two very close friends that were
sisters. While in the view of many others they were not physically attractive,
in my mind they were the most beautiful people I knew. This is because of
their sincere care and affection. On the other hand, I had a very close family
member that was only centered within her very own issues. Every few years
she would perform a different type of plastic surgery, but no matter what
the result was, I still never thought of her as a nice or pretty person.